GCW Church Mobilization | Impact South Sudan
GCW Church Mobilization | Impact South Sudan - Juba
by Pastor Ding Gatluak, Parklands Baptist Church GCW Attendee
Juba, South Sudan
June 21, 2022
Greeting in the name of Jesus. I was among the participants that the Great Commandment Workshop training at Parklands Baptist Church held in Nairobi in February.
Serve With Compassion is a small Christian organization working with youth and children. We have one school in Kakuma Refugee Camp located in Kenya and we moved recently to Juba to establish a mission post in this location.
I went back to Juba, and I was able to identify orphans in an Internal Displaced Persons (IDP) Camp. I have located more than 30 most desperate orphans. I was accomplishing this work through Nuru Baptist Church inside Camp 3.
In our interaction with the church leaders, we found out that the children lack education and feedings. The positive thing is that all the orphans do have a relative as a caretaker nearby.
Therefore, I have done one day training to church youth leaders and was able to get agreement from the community leaders to secure a piece of land to start a church. We have secured $200 from Baptist Convention of South Sudan for the land and we will finalize it when I'm through with treatment.
The church will be named Juba New Life Church. We will start the school when we put the temporary shelter up for a worship center. The uniqueness of this church is that the main disputed tribes; the Nuer and Dinka, will be in the same church and their children will be the means for reconciliation. We pray for God to help us on how to go about this project. These are pictures of one day training in Checkpoint Juba.
We are appealing to all those involved with Global Orphan Relief and their Church Mobilization effort to continue praying for Good Samaritans throughout the world who are trusting God to serve others who are in great need of assistance.
Praise the Lord!
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Church Mobilization is our newest initiative launched in February 2022. We are currently working with local area churches to co-host Great Commandment Workshops where we bring together multiple subject matter experts to discuss the why and how to serve the poor generally, and orphan children specifically. We will track the impact of children served through this effort to justify continued investment; however, we have no plans to be funding the care of children through this initiative.
Beyond the financial commitment of the workshops, this effort is to be indigenous, self-propagating, and self-supporting. Our objective is to engage local churches to expand our GO! network, mobilize the church body to serve orphaned children, and to advance the Kingdom through demonstrating the Gospel to others. Through these workshops we are:
Global Orphan Relief (GO) has been serving orphaned children since 2005. We have accomplished this work through local partners in each country that provides oversight and distribution of care. As of May, we serve 2,479 orphan children in DR Congo, Kenya, Pakistan, South Sudan, and Zambia within our Home-based Care, Scholarship, Nutrition, and Church Mobilization Initiatives.
You may send support or other correspondence to Global Orphan Relief, 16352 Prairie Farm Circle, Parker, CO 80134 or you may give also give electronically at Church Mobilization or give on this website at the upper righthand corner under ‘Donate’ and select Church Mobilization | Great Commandment Workshop under the Fund designation.
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